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Echoes & Origins: Camp Many Stories at Glacier National Park
2025-08-15 00:00 - 2025-08-19 23:59 (America/Chicago)
The Glacier Institute in Columbia Falls, Montana, will host a place-based learning experience for K–12 educators and students set amidst the stunning backdrop of the Glacier National Park area. This immersive program invites participants to present, analyze, and interpret stories of this land in a respectful and reflective cultural exchange. Stories shared will range from Grecian, British, and Nordic traditions to the rich Indigenous storytelling of the West, including those of the Salish, Kootenai, and Blackfoot nations. Using a diverse array of primary and secondary sources, supplemented by educational trunks provided by the National Park Service, teachers and students will explore the natural and cultural landscapes of Glacier Park. They will compare and contrast the places they visit with historical and contemporary sources, deepening their understanding of the region and its stories. Through collaborative discussions, participants will gain insights into the unique cultural heritage of each Indigenous nation that contributes to Montana’s rich history. Field journaling will be a key component of the experience, incorporating sketches, source analysis, personal reflections, storytelling activities, and cultural explorations. This practice will help students synthesize their learning and connect more deeply with both place and story.

Brine & Blood: Gamifying History Education Using Digital Archives
2025-08-08 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-08-01 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-07-28 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-07-22 13:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago)
In this virtual Professional Development Institute for history educators, ten 9th-12th grade and community college teachers will explore the complex, evolving process of emancipation during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Participants will deepen their content knowledge, gain new teaching strategies, and collaborate with fellow educators. Using the Library of Congress and the Civil War and Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi extensive digital collections of thousands of Civil War and Reconstruction-era primary sources, participants will dive into the lived experiences, debates, and challenges surrounding wartime and postwar emancipation. Educators will gain tools, resources, and strategies for teaching this pivotal era using a series of authentic. project-based learning.

Brine & Blood: Gamifying History Education Using Digital Archives
2025-07-16 13:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago)
In this immersive in-person Professional Development Institute in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, ten 9th-12th grade and community college teachers will explore the complex, evolving process of emancipation during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Participants will deepen their content knowledge, gain new teaching strategies, and collaborate with fellow educators. Using the Library of Congress and the Civil War and Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi extensive digital collections of thousands of Civil War and Reconstruction-era primary sources, participants will dive into the lived experiences, debates, and challenges surrounding wartime and postwar emancipation. Educators will gain tools, resources, and strategies for teaching this pivotal era using a series of authentic. project-based learning.

Edmond History Museum Teaching with Primary Sources Project
2025-07-14 08:00 - 2025-07-17 17:00 (America/Chicago)
During the Summer Institute at the Edmond History Museum on July 14-17, 2025, thirty K-12 teachers and school librarians will be introduced to digital resources from the Library of Congress, as well as collections from Oklahoma museums, libraries, and the Oklahoma Historical Society. Following the institute, participants will develop a lesson plan for how they will integrate primary sources in their classroom which will be shared at an Open House for educators at the Edmond History Museum.

Behind Barbed Wire: Learning from the Primary Sources of Japanese American Incarceration
2025-07-10 08:00 - 2025-07-11 17:00 (America/Chicago)
In this workshop, educators will learn how to access, analyze, and effectively incorporate the Heart Mountain Sentinel newspaper into their classrooms and gain a collection of resources from the Library of Congress collections for teaching Japanese American Incarceration.

Mahpiya Luta Summer Research Institute
2025-06-02 08:00 - 2025-06-06 17:00 (America/Chicago)
The Mahpiya Luta Summer Research Institute will immerse high school students from Mahpiya Luta Owayawa, a school on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, in a research experience that equip them with tools to explore a share the history of their school (formerly an Indian boarding school). The institute will take place at Marquette University where students will receive training in research methods, primary source analysis using Teaching with Primary Sources, Library of Congress tools), and the ethics and responsibilities of historical storytelling. Students will combine archival research, historical inquiry, and writing to explore primary sources from Marquette University’s Mahpiya Luta’s archival collections and the Library of Congress’s “Exploring the Stories Behind Native American Boarding Schools” set. Students will also attend presentations by the Head of Special Collections and faculty members in American Indian Studies to deepen their understanding of archival practices and Indigenous history. Students will create an exhibit to showcase their findings and present their work at Marquette University.

Creating Visual Classrooms with Ethical Pedagogy for Teacher Leaders
2025-05-27 00:00 - 2025-05-29 23:59 (America/Chicago)
Hosted by the University of Oklahoma, humanities (Grades 6-12 English/Language Arts and Social Studies) teachers from across the state of Oklahoma will engage in the exploration, analysis, and curation of Primary Source Sets from the Library of Congress such as American Authors, Charts and Graphs, Dust Bowl Migration, Informational Text, Maps from the World Digital Library, Oklahoma, Weather Forecasting, Westward Expansion. The guiding questions for this workshop are: How do we create interdisciplinary literacy practices that support student learning across the curriculum?; How do we select and use visual and multimodal texts?; and What are visual primary sources? Daily activities include building teacher content knowledge with exploring pedagogical opportunities (e.g., historical inquiry, perspective taking) for students using primary source materials and helping teachers better curate text set materials for their classrooms with learner, visual structures, knowledge structures, and ethical considerations.

Great Plains Template Event
2025-05-22 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago)

AI in History Education
2025-04-17 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York)

Elementary Webinar TBA (*Supporting EL in History)
2025-04-16 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York)

Rooted in the Real World: Harnessing Place-Based Learning for Social Studies Education
2025-04-02 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago)

International Day of Education: Perspectives from Three Nations
2025-01-25 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York)
Join us for a special event co-hosted by the National Council for History Education (NCHE) and EuroClio in honor of the International Day of Education. This global conversation will feature insights from three distinguished educators: Marjorie Brown (South Africa), Leonard Schmieding (Germany), and Jennifer Baniewicz (United States). Together, they will explore the challenges and opportunities in education across diverse cultural contexts and discuss how history educators are shaping global perspectives for the future.

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History in the Kitchen
2025-01-23 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York)

Integrating 3D-Printed Artifacts, GIS Maps, and Primary Sources in the History Classroom
2025-01-22 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York)

History Hangouts Live
2024-12-10 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago)
Join NCHE and our Teacher Advisory Group members as we lead discussions related to history education.
